Employment opportunities for women in Saudi Arabia (Teaching, Accounting, Marketing, Publishing, Technology..)

Many women wish to be employed. Well depending on skills, there are a variety of job opportunities in Riyadh, although government restrictions on women working in the same offices as men still remain in place.

Embassies in Saudi sponsor women groups where the ladies can and engage in a variety of sports activities such as tennis and golf, handicraft activities such as quilting and embroidery, and academic pursuits such as foreign language conversation circles, book discussion groups, and bridge competitions.

Qualified teachers, accountants, librarians, and secretaries have chances to be hired by the international schools and those with master level qualifications or with English as the second language usually pursue a teaching job at the woman’s university. Again private tutoring is another option for those with the right skills.

Coming to Hospitals, these are an exception to the gender-segregation rules. Nurses, doctors, dentists and other health care professions are always in demand.Qualified accountants, lawyers and architects can find employment if they look carefully. One such resource is the volunteer-run professional women’s network which meets at ACS.

Many skilled women pursue independent contract or sales work, taking advantage of the free-lance nature of the work to establish their own schedules. Others take the opportunity to try something completely different.

Expatriate women have successfully engaged in desk-top publishing for news letters and brochures. Women who are fully engaged in handicrafts often find that the compound and organization bazaars are an outlet for their handmade items, particularly those that are seasonal.

Women may also volunteer to work with charity organizations or in schools, such as the Down Syndrome Center run by the al-Nahda Society or the American International School.

Those looking out for teaching jobs, check out the contact numbers, email and website address mentioned against each school in this page , most of the websites listed have a career section included.

So that sums up the various opportunities available for women in KSA.
Remember, An enterprising women who keeps her eyes open and is willing to network can easily occupy her time with a wide variety of activities supported by the local and expatriate community.

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